Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because part of Musk's business model has always been getting around trade unions and
I mean, there's a gigafactory outside Berlin now.
It's the only auto factory in Germany without a collective bargaining agreement.
Sweden is in its longest labor action in history with Tesla because he doesn't see that as part of the operating system.
That's the, we think, the vulnerability and characteristic feature of this Muskism is it's just forgotten about the worker and forgotten about the need to secure consent with the people who are actually producing your products.
And that is an arrangement that actually can't last forever.
Well, I mean, in the case of Musk, there's so much important stuff going on there that it's impossible not to come back to him because this figure of the founder CEO God and Musk has now officially become the techno king of Tesla since 2021.
He's not the CEO.
He's the techno king is is a situation that.
for me as a historian, is a real bitter pill to swallow because I was raised in social history.
I was raised in history from below, history from the margins.
And we were always taught that the gray man theory of history was like the worst way to tell history.
It couldn't be that it's just one person strode across the stage of the past and sort of shaped the world as they wished.
But I've had to come to terms with the fact that through collectively, through our own decision making as societies, we've produced a situation where there is an historically unprecedented concentration of power in individuals, far, far, far more than there was with Henry Ford.
So Elon Musk can wake up in the middle of the night in his underwear and speak directly to 250 million people and change the value of cryptocurrencies, change the value of stocks within seconds.
In fact, there's automated bots that follow his tweets and then immediately place investment bids based on that.
He has...
We'll have a trillion dollars probably by the end of the week.
Campaign finance laws.
By the end of the week?
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